{"id":36803,"date":"2013-01-24T08:26:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T13:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=36803"},"modified":"2013-01-24T08:41:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T13:41:18","slug":"pressure-mounts-as-moocs-force-higher-ed-to-rethink-roscorla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/01\/24\/pressure-mounts-as-moocs-force-higher-ed-to-rethink-roscorla\/","title":{"rendered":"Pressure mounts as MOOCs force higher ed to rethink [Roscorla]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerdigitaled.com\/news\/Pressure-MOOCs-Higher-Ed.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pressure mounts as MOOCs force higher ed to rethink<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from centerdigitaled.com by Tanya Roscorla<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As massively open online courses continue to gain traction, they&#8217;re proving a disruptive force in higher education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The traditional emphasis on in-person classes has brought universities to a price point that does not look sustainable, said Adrian Sannier, senior vice president of product for Pearson eCollege.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Maybe for the first time in a really long time, higher ed is under a tremendous amount of external scrutiny,&#8221; said Sannier, the former vice president and university technology officer at Arizona State University. &#8220;There is growing awareness that the prices charged and the rate at which the prices are growing is simply unsustainable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Also relevant\/see:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2013\/01\/24\/finances-affected-years-entering-class-educational-and-personal-ways-cirp-survey\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Minding the money<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from insidehighered.com by Allie Grasgreen<br \/>\nOne might hope that the economic recession, which formally ended in 2009, is no longer inhibiting students\u2019 educational pursuits &#8212; or, perhaps more realistically, not as much. But an annual survey of freshmen suggests precisely the opposite: more students than ever (66.6 percent) say America\u2019s economic condition significantly affected their choice of college &#8212; so the recession\u2019s residual effects, at least, linger on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pressure mounts as MOOCs force higher ed to rethink &#8212; from centerdigitaled.com by Tanya Roscorla Excerpt: As massively open online courses continue to gain traction, they&#8217;re proving a disruptive force in higher education. The traditional emphasis on in-person classes has brought universities to a price point that does not look sustainable, said Adrian Sannier, senior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,505],"tags":[290,453,572],"class_list":["post-36803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","tag-cost-of-getting-an-education","tag-moocs","tag-walmart-of-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36803"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36810,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36803\/revisions\/36810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}